As an ATID Fellow in the late 1990’s, Rabbi Ian (Haim) Pear undertook a study of how to best integrate Torah study with growing older. Here are his innovative findings.
Announcements for the week of May7 – 14.
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Imprisonment for Debt in Israeli Law Debtor’s prison has a long – but not proud – history in many of the world’s legal systems, including Israel’s. During the 1970’s and 1980’s, for example, some 500,000 letters were sent threatening prison to those who could not pay their debts, and some 20,000-40,000 people actually served time in prison for their inability,…
One interesting distinction between Israeli and American law connected to Jewish Law arises in the field of defamation. US law, of course, tends to favor the defendant, the entity whose statements allegedly cause damage to the plaintiff. With the guiding principle here the First Amendment and its concerns for freedom of speech and freedom of the press, the Supreme Court…
Admissibility of Confessions In June of this year the Supreme Court threw out a confession given by a teenage accomplice accused of involvement in the deadly 2015 firebombing of a Palestinian home in the town of Duma; the reason behind the ruling was due to the fact that the confession had been determined to have been offered under duress. In…
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